whats the best band with more than 20 studio albums?
 

i mean id like to avoid a slew of solo artists but include them if you must. i mostly just want to avoid a bunch of solo jazz responses like coltrane, davis, sun ra, etc.

1.sonic youth
2.melvins
3.ruins

pretty close call

The Fall win for me, but I reckon if you include the various Otomo Yoshihide groups and all of Keiji Haino's groups they would also win. Difficult.

sun ra had the arkestra that doesn't really count as solo


i vote for haino.

hmm fair enough. i have to admit i know next to nothing about sun ra.

Daniel Johnston must have over 20 albums by now, right? If so I'd go for him and SY.

same :(

my friend babysat him and jad fair one time. he had to keep daniel from eating burritos straight out of the freezer.

Haha, rad. How long ago was that?

about 7 years ago. our other friend chris bultman was in a band with them at the time called the lucky sperms. so thats why they were over at the house. the friend who babysat them had only one instruction which was not to give offer them any pot.

That's rather cool

indeed

why was your friend babysitting two grown men?

cause it was Daniel Johnston, as for Jad Fair I don't know

Sun City Dykes
...just kidding, sun city girls

the fall

have sonic youth really made so many albums? but if you say so... acid mothers temple probably too.

SY having 20+ 'FULL-LENGTH STUDIO' albums???? not yet. counting the SY e.p. and Ciccone, that's 16. you might include syr4 which is certainly full length and studio..... if you count the many other e.p.'s, live releases, and comps we're past 50......

I would have a hard time choosing between Nurse With Wound or the Legendary Pink Dots.

Hawkwind and Gong would have been strong contenders, but they both had diminishing returns and increasing levels of cartoonish cheese factor as time went on. NWW and LPD remain consistently interesting for the most part.

lmfao my friends right here and he said jad fair actually left the house eventually to go see goonies at the alamo theater but daniel was apparently under strict orders not to leave the house. my friend, chad hopper, said it was easy though because all he had to do was talk about the beatles. they also watched part of the legend of billy jean.

huh youre the second person at least to say them. i also posted this on relapse. i had never even heard of NWW before.

I've been obsessed with them for about 20 years.

It would have to be Nurse With Wound for me too as you never know what to expect with them.

Current 93 would come a close second.

they might be giants!

1978 For You Warner Bros.
1979 Prince Warner Bros.
1980 Dirty Mind Warner Bros.
1981 Controversy Warner Bros.
1983 1999 Warner Bros.
1984 Purple Rain Warner Bros.
1985 Around the World in a Day
1986 Parade Paisley Park
1987 Sign 'O' the Times Paisley Park
1987 The Black Album Paisley Park
1988 Lovesexy Paisley Park
1989 Batman Paisley Park
1990 Graffiti Bridge Paisley Park
1991 Diamonds and Pearls Paisley Park
1992 The Love Symbol Album Paisley Park
1994 Come Paisley Park
1995 Gold Experience Warner Bros./NPG
1996 Chaos and Disorder Warner Bros.
1996 Emancipation NPG/EMI
1998 New Power Soul NPG
1999 Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
2001 The Rainbow Children Redline
2003 N.E.W.S NPG (Big Daddy)
2004 Musicology NPG/Columbia
2006 3121 Universal

fuck prince, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

Fuck Prince? That's Illogical

recent shredding

Alphabet St

BORE...........

And if they don't have twenty, then count all their closely related offshoots. Then we're talking like 2000 studio albums!

Agreed, and then there's Made in the U.S.A., which did get released by Rhino as a full length album sort of. So we're up to 18, so they don't qualify for the 20 criteria. If they did, I'd say them.

So, I'd have to say Sun Ra and the Arkestra. Forced to pick a "rock" band, I'd go with the Legendary Pink Dots, who are actually putting out stuff now that I find at the top of their game.

oh shit how did i miss that post?

i dont have any problem with this list.

1. Sonic Youth1 (Neutral, 1982)
2. Confusion Is Sex2 (Neutral, 1983)
3. Bad Moon Rising (Homestead, 1985)
4. EVOL (SST, 1986)
5. Sister (SST, 1987)
6. The Whitey Album4 (Enigma/Blast First, 1988, as Ciccone Youth,
   with Mike Watt, J Mascis and Suzanne Sasic)
7. Daydream Nation (Enigma/Blast First, 1988)
8. Goo (DGC, 1990; Deluxe Edition, 2005) US #96
9. Dirty (DGC, 1992; Deluxe Edition 2003) US #83
10. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (DGC, 1994) US #34; UK #1
11. Washing Machine (DGC, 1995) US #58; UK #3
12. A Thousand Leaves (DGC, 1998) US #85; UK #38
13. SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century (SYR, 1999
14. NYC Ghosts & Flowers (DGC, 2000) US #172
15. Murray Street (DGC, 2002) US #126
16. Sonic Nurse (DGC, 2004) US #64; IRE #53
17. SYR6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (SYR, 2005)
18. Rather Ripped (DGC, 2006) US #71; UK #64
19. syr 1 - 22:30
20. syr 2 - 28:30
21. syr 3 - 56:00

Well, SYR 6 is a Live recording, so that doesn't count as studio. But, yeah, SYR 3 is certainly full length, and there's still Made in the U.S.A. to contend with too. The Destroyed Room is a whole 'nother debate, but if they do qualify, they do still remain my favorite band (they do that either way). The Arkestra and LPD remain close 2nd and 3rds.

isnt syr 6 new material though? thats what im most concerned about. i just dont want a bunch of bands with all these live albums that are just the Lps rehashed.

i dont know i just consider made in usa a soundtrack but ive only listened to it once or twice. id probably include instrument for fugazi so i guess this one would make sense.

but even without syr6 its still 21

I met a chap who was into the LPD once. He was an utter prick. One of the most cuntish cunts I ever had the misfortune of talking to. I've not really investigated them much because of his cuntishness. Perhaps I should? How close are Einsteurzende to having 20? I imagine NNCK or SHOTM are probably beyond 20 now... or are they? NNCK would definitely be my 2nd place to the Fall.

i suck at initials

You mean the worst.I thought they had been relegated to the corner of the human psyche created especially for shite bands that we should all forget about.

NNCK would be at 20 if you counted live stuff. I think they probably only have 2 or 3 actual 'studio' albums. But only counting studio stuff with NNCK is sort of unfair Because most of the albums are recorded live. Anyway, they're probably at 20 by now...I have 11 or 12 or their records and I have by no means all of them.

notes on a but a few very worthwhile artists with more than twenty releases:
Neil Young
http://www.thrasherswheat.org/tnfy/discog.htm
The Rolling Stones
http://www.therockradio.com/rolling-...scography.html
David Bowie
http://www.connollyco.com/discograph...wie/index.html
The Kinks
http://kinks.it.rit.edu/discography/...at=1&country=0
Frank Zappa
http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/albums.html
& tossing further stipulations aside:
Blue Note Records
http://www.bluenote.com/artists.asp
Impulse!
http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/history.aspx?lid=24
Chess Records
http://www.history-of-rock.com/chess_records.htm

Tom Waits
I believe that he has 20 or 21 albums

Richard Thompson

King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Neil Young.

Im sure theres others i love. umm...Ornette Coleman?.

King Crimson's only really good albums came out between 1972 and 1974. That's three albums outta 20+.